Radioactive Wasp Nest Found At South Carolina Nuclear Weapons Facility!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today, July 31st, 2025. God bless you and yours. No matter where you are in the world, please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Radioactive wasp nests found at South Carolina Nuclear Weapons Facility. A radioactive wasp nest has been discovered at a former nuclear weapon manufacturing facility in South Carolina. The nest was found by workers at the Savannah River site in Aiken County, according to a report from the Department of Energy. According to reports, the contaminated nest was found on July 3rd. Just before 2 p.m. by radiological control operations workers during routine inspections, located on a stanchion near a tank in the F area tank farm, the nest registered a staggering 100,000 disintegrations per minute, DPMs per minute, a level described as moderately high radiation. Workers promptly sprayed the nest to eliminate the wasps, but it turned out the wasps had superpowers. No, I'm just making sure you're listening. The dead wasps were then bagged and disposed of as radiological waste. What would happen to someone if they got stung by one of these wasps is yet to be determined. Tom Clements, executive director of the group, said that knowing the type of wasp nest could also be critical. Some wasps make nests out of dirt and others use different material, which could help us pinpoint where the contamination came from. Thankfully, no contamination was detected in the surrounding ground or area, but the very presence of a radioactive insect nest highlights Persistent threats from on-site legacy contamination tied to the site's history of producing plutonium and tritium for nuclear bombs during the Cold War era. I'm mad as a hornet that the SRS didn't explain where the radioactive waste came from or if there's some kind of leak from one of the waste tanks that the public should be aware of, Clements told the Associated Press. The Savannah River site, a massive 310-square-mile complex built in the 1950s, was once a key player in America's nuclear arsenal buildup. Designated an EPA Superfund site in the 1980s, billions in taxpayers' dollars have been spent there to no avail. The site is still considered very dangerous and no real solutions to areas like this have ever been successful.